Questions tagged [integer]
For challenges involving the manipulation of integers.
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Matrix Jigsaw Puzzles
Input:
An integer n
Two equal-sized square matrices (with their width/height being a multiple of n)
Output:
One of two ...
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Enumerate each series of identical numbers in-place
Given a list of strictly positive integers, go through each distinct number and replace all occurrences of it with successive indices (zero or one based) of a new series.
Examples
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Collapsing numbers
Let's define the a function on natural numbers \$n\$, written as base 10 digits \$d_k\; d_{k-1}\; \dotsc\; d_1\; d_0\$, as follows:
As long as there are equal adjacent digits \$d_i\;d_{i-1}\$, ...
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Eight coins for the fair king
This is a "counterpart" of another puzzle, Eight coins for the fair king on Puzzling.SE.
You can read the above puzzle for the background. The details about this puzzle are as follows.
A set of 8 ...
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Digital Sumorial
Given an input n, write a program or function that outputs/returns the sum of the digital sums of n for all the bases 1 to ...
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Prime containment numbers (speed edition)
This is sequence A054261
The \$n\$th prime containment number is the lowest number which contains the first \$n\$ prime numbers as substrings. For example, the number \$235\$ is the lowest number ...
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Prime containment numbers (golf edition)
This is sequence A054261.
The \$n\$th prime containment number is the lowest number which contains the first \$n\$ prime numbers as substrings. For example, the number \$235\$ is the lowest number ...
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Sort by Largest Digit(s)
Challenge:
Given a list of integer, sort descending by their single largest digit(s). The order for numbers with the same largest digit are then sorted by second largest digit, etc.
We ignore ...
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Reciprocal copycats
Let \$A\$ be a positive integer consisting of \$n\$ decimal digits \$d_1,d_2,...,d_n\$. Let \$B\$ be another positive integer.
For the purpose of this challenge, we call \$A\$ a copycat of \$B\$ if ...
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All the single eights
Given a non-empty rectangular array of integers from 0 to 9, output the amount of cells that are ...
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Through Space and Time
Introduction:
In general we usually speak of four dimensions: three space dimensions for x, y, and ...
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Print the Lost numbers
As a big fan of the Lost TV series, I always got intrigued by the sequence of numbers that repetitively appears on the episodes. These numbers are:
\$ 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42\$ (A104101)
Using any ...
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The inverse Collatz Conjecture
I think the Collatz Conjecture is already well-known. But what if we invert the rules?
Start with an integer n >= 1.
Repeat the following steps:
If n is even, multiply it by 3 and add 1.
If n is ...
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New Neighbour Sequence
The non-negative integers are bored of always having the same two* neighbours, so they decide to mix things up a little. However, they are also lazy and want to stay as close as possible to their ...
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The Written Digits Sequence
Here's a reasonably trivial sequence which is not in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Start with an empty sequence then define each term as the number of characters required to write out,...
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Multiplicative undelta
Let us define the "multiplicative deltas" of values \$[\; a_0, \cdots a_N, \;]\$ as:
$$
[\; a_1 / a_0, \cdots, a_{i+1} / a_i, \cdots, a_N / a_{N-1} \;]
$$
The reverse operation - namely "...
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Length of a UTF-8 byte sequence
Determine the length of a UTF-8 byte sequence given its first byte. The following table shows which ranges map to each possible length:
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Stagger, stack, sum
Inspired by this Stack Overflow question.
The challenge
Input
An array of square matrices containing non-negative integers.
Output
A square matrix built from the input matrices as follows.
Let \$...
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Make them sum to 10,000
We've recently reached the threshold of 10,000 questions on PPCG. Hooray! Let's celebrate this with a simple challenge.
Input
Two integers \$A\$ and \$B\$, both in \$[1..9999]\$, such that \$A+B<...
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Every positive integer can be written as the sum of 3 palindrome integers. Wha'ts the largest possible palindrome integer for each integer n? [duplicate]
Let n be a positive integer then n = a + b + c for some a, b, and c that are palindrome integers. What is the largest possible integer ...
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Longest Repeating Subsequence of a Single Digit
Challenge:
Given a positive integer, output the longest single-digit subsequence that occurs at least twice, AND has boundaries of another digit (or the start/end of the integer).
An example:
Input:...
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Whose neighbours are hostile?
Introduction
For the purposes of this challenge, we will define the neighbours of an element \$E\$ in a square matrix \$A\$ (such that \$E=A_{i,j}\$) as all the entries of \$A\$ that are immediately ...
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Half, Half Half, and, Half
Consider the following number sequence:
\$ 0, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{4}, \frac{3}{4}, \frac{1}{8}, \frac{3}{8}, \frac{5}{8}, \frac{7}{8}, \frac{1}{16}, \frac{3}{16}, \frac{5}{16}, \frac{7}{16}, \...
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Simplistic Lava Lamp
Introduction:
I think everyone knows what a Lava Lamp is, but in case they do not:
(Image source)
They're basically glass tubes that contain wax in a translucent liquid. The bottom part is heated ...
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Crown hundred crownty crown
I noticed a certain game had a peculiar life counter, which instead of stopping at 999, gained a new digit – the next number was crown hundred or ...
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Missing numbers in arithmetic sum
Challenge
Giving a valid arithmetic sum with some missing numbers, output the full expression.
Example:
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Find the \$\left(n^2\right)^\text{th }n\$-gonal number
Given a non-negative integer, \$n\$, yield the \$(n^2)^\text{th } n\$-gonal number.
Further Detail:
The \$x\$-gonal numbers, or polygonal numbers, are also known as the two-dimensional figurate ...
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Codegolf Rainbow : Fun with Integer-Arrays
Introduction:
(Source: Wikipedia)
When we look at a rainbow it will always have the colors from top to bottom:
Red; orange; yellow; green; blue; indigo; violet
If we look at these individual rings, ...
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Fill up to duplicate ranges
Let \$L\$ be a list of positive integers with no particular ordering, and which can contain duplicates. Write a program or function which outputs a list of positive integers \$M\$ (whose ordering is ...
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Toggle some bits and get a square
Given an integer \$N>3\$, you have to find the minimum number of bits that need to be inverted in \$N\$ to turn it into a square number. You are only allowed to invert bits below the most ...
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Calculate power series result [duplicate]
Related: Calculate Power Series Coefficients
Given a positive integer \$X\$ and a max exponent (Also a positive integer too) \$N\$ calculate the result of a power series. Example:
$$X^0+X^1+X^2+\...
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Spiral neighbourhoods
If we take the natural numbers and roll them up counter clock-wise into a spiral we end up with the following infinite spiral:
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Small Ramsey Numbers
Background: the Ramsey number \$R(r,s)\$ gives the minimum number of vertices \$v\$ in the complete graph \$K_v\$ such that a red/blue edge coloring of \$K_v\$ has at least one red \$K_r\$ or one blue ...
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Stacked digit staircases
Given positive integers \$w\$ and \$h\$ output \$w\$ columns and \$h\$ rows of text as described below.
The first row begins with 11 0s, the second row with 10 <...
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Calculate the sum of all odd digits of pi in range [duplicate]
Introduction
In the not so distant future with the AI revolution, we will need a way to solve their captchas to prove we're not humans.
This challenge was inspired by CommitStrip.
Challenge
One ...
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How many bytes is it
This time, we want render the count of bytes in a human readable way to user. Let's write a program (a full one or a function or other acceptable formats) to do this.
Input
An non-negative integer, ...
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Let's design a digit mosaic
Challenge
Given a positive integer \$N\$, repeat each of its digits \$d_1, d_2, d_3, \cdots, d_n\$ a number of times corresponding to its position in \$N\$. In other words, each digit \$d_k\$ should ...
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Replace me by the sum of my cyclic successors!
I have a simple challenge for you this time. Given an array of positive integers A (or the equivalent in your language), replace each entry Ai with the sum of the next Ai elements of A, cycling back ...
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Classify a region by its slope
Definitions
The kth ring of a square matrix of size N, where 1 ≤ k ≤ ceiling(N/2) is the list formed by the elements of the kth and (N-k+1)th rows and columns, but without the first and last k-1 ...
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Up and down, up and down
Challenge:
Given a positive integer input n, create a vector that follows this pattern:
0 1 0 -1 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -3 -2 -1 ... ±(n-1) ±n
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Make Three from One [duplicate]
Given a single digit integer and a three digit integer, output a mathematical formula that uses only the single digit and a given list of operators to equal the three digit integer.
Input: A one ...
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Modular broadcasting
This challenge is related to some of the MATL language's features, as part of the May 2018 Language of the Month event.
Introduction
In MATL, many two-input functions work element-wise with ...
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Knight Distance
In Chess, a Knight on grid (x, y) may move to (x-2, y-1), (x-2, y+1), (x-1, y-2), (x-1, y+2), (x+1, y-2), (x+1, y+2), (x+2, y-1), (x+2, y+1) in one step. Imagine an infinite chessboard with only a ...
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Generate lowest degree polynomial from sequence [duplicate]
Introduction
A sequence of numbers is passed in as the input. The program has to generate the lowest degree polynomial possible. This was my first programming project in college and it would be ...
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Digit Occurrences
Input:
A list of integers (which will never contain a zero)
Output:
A list of the same size with counts based on the following:
If the current item is negative: Look at all items before this item, ...
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Interval Notations
Challenge:
Input:
Two integer parameters a and b (where a<b and the difference is at ...
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Not Quite Roman Ternary
Given an integer n ≥ 0 , output it in a non-positional base-3 notation, using digits 139ABCDE… and a 1-character separator. Every digit is a consecutive power of 3 ...
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Digits in their lanes
Input:
A list of integers
Output:
Put each digit (and the minus sign) in its own lane, in the order -0123456789, ignoring any duplicated digits.
Example:
Input:...
